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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.

... the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.